FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) â€” A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in a road-rage killing and attempted capital murder for shooting at deputies during standoff 10 months later. A Tuesday statement from the Tarrant County District Attorney's Office says Jesus (hay-SOOS') Ray Ybarra (ee-BAHR'-rah) was sentenced after entering his guilty pleas Monday ...

FORT WORTH -- After twice barring the media and public from court hearings in a murder case involving a juvenile, state district Judge Jean Boyd on Thursday denied a request to make records from that case public. Tarrant County prosecutor Riley Shaw requested that she issue written findings of fact that she used to support the ruling. Boyd did not comment on her decision. Several North Texas ...

Authorities had been canvassing the state just hours after Jessica Smith was reported missing from her home in Fort Worth on Tuesday ... Police and representatives from the Tarrant County district attorney's office flew to New Mexico on Sunday ...